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Topic: What Does this Tab symbol mean? |
Carter York
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Austin, TX [Windsor Park]
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Posted 17 Mar 2004 1:57 pm |
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Hey y'all,
I have gotten some tab recently and in several songs it uses a tab symbol I'm not familiar with.
It is a fret number followed by a period, with an 'arc' connecting the first fret number to another fret number that follows.
---5.--------10-------
with the arc going from 5 to 10. I know it's not a slide, as some occur on other strings from the start note.
Thanks!
Carter |
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Colm Chomicky
From:
Kansas, (Prairie Village)
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Posted 17 Mar 2004 7:17 pm
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My guess is it has to do with the count.
I have some tab from Neil Flanz. In his tab explanation the fret number with the period can be thought of as a dotted guarter note followed by an eight note.
He also has similar tab with two frets connected by an arc. For that example each note gets a 1/2 count, for example two eighth notes.
I am a beginner so take your chances with my guess. |
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Nicholas Dedring
From:
Beacon, New York, USA
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Posted 18 Mar 2004 10:17 am
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Tab is usually kind of without timing indications. I would guess that it means that slide into the ten, but that you interrupt/block, and don't slide straight up from the five while letting the notes continuously ring. I have some herby wallace material where the
------5
------5
kind of stuff is referred to as "slide up from some indeterminate point"... pick some spot somewhere, and slide up from there. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 19 Mar 2004 11:34 am
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| Maybe it's just a typo? |
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Colm Chomicky
From:
Kansas, (Prairie Village)
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Posted 19 Mar 2004 3:16 pm
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| Until someone beats me over the head with a ball-pein hammer, I'm gonna stick with my first answer as a reasonable punt. (i.e., it is a tab symbol in one of my books, and I hit myself once with the hammer to make sure I was not dreaming) |
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